Process Description

Fatty alcohol is sulphated in a loop reactor and then neutralized with Dimethylamine and Sodium Hydroxide. The neutral liquor is reacted in the batch autoclaves to produce the crude Alkyl dimethylamine (Tertiary amine). The crude amine is washed, vacuum dried, borated to make the unconverted Fatty Alcohol non-volatile and them distilled to produce the Amine product.

Main Equipment

    * Continuous Sulphonation & Neutralisation Loop reactors
    * 3 batch Autoclaves & Wash vessels
    * 2 Boration units
    * Distillation unit
    * Raw material & Amine storage tanks

Raw Materials

    * Fatty alcohol
    * Sulphur Trioxide (SO3)
    * Dimethylamine solution 60%
    * Sodium hydroxide 50%

Finished Product

    * Tertiary amine Empigen ABE